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2 unusual facts about Dorothea Jordan


Alfred Cooper

He was devoted to his wife Lady Agnes Duff, the youngest daughter of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife by his wife, Lady Agnes Hay, daughter of William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll and granddaughter of King William IV by his mistress, the actress Mrs. Dorothy Jordan.

Dorothy Jordan

Dorothea Jordan (sometimes called Dorothy or Dora, née Bland, 1761–1816), Irish actor and courtesan, mistress of William IV


Aubrey FitzClarence, 4th Earl of Munster

Aubrey FitzClarence, 4th Earl of Munster, (7 June 1862 – 1 January 1928), was an English aristocrat, and, like his brother, Geoffrey, the great-grandson of King William IV by his mistress Dorothea Jordan.

Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin organised two exhibitions about the Regency actress Mrs Jordan at Kenwood in 1995, and about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley in 1997.

Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland

Lord Falkland married Lady Amelia FitzClarence (21 March 1807 – 2 July 1858 London), the last unmarried illegitimate daughter of King William IV and his mistress, Dorothy Jordan, on 27 December 1830 at the Royal Pavilion.

Thomas Park

He was brought up as an engraver, and produced mezzotint portraits, including John Thomas, bishop of Rochester, and Miss Penelope Boothby, after Sir Joshua Reynolds; Mrs. Jordan as the Comic Muse, after John Hoppner; and a Magdalen after Ubaldo Gandolfi.


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